…cherishing the history of the Cerne Valley

War Memorials

‘Their Name Liveth for Evermore’.

Every Remembrance Sunday the names of the 28 men from the rural villages of Cerne Abbas, Up Cerne, Minterne and Godmanstone in the County of Dorset, whose names are honoured on their respective war memorials, are read out at the Service in St Mary’s Church, Cerne Abbas. They include casualties from the First and Second World Wars and the Falklands conflict.

The Society has researched the lives and deaths of each of these men and what has been discovered about them is summarised herein a downloadable pdf document.

The Society is pleased to record that this research identified two men who were casualties of the First World War and who had missed commemoration by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. They will now be honoured with a CWGC headstone at their local graves.

UP CERNEWAR MEMORIAL

World War I 1914-1918

John Henry Stode Batten

CERNE ABBAS WAR MEMORIAL

World War I 1914-1918

Edward Henry Young

Horace Collier

Charles Damen

Harry Derriman

Albert Edward Way

James Henry Lake

Harold Hunt

Charles Burt

Thomas Williment

Frank Paulley

George Curtis

Reginald Henry Vine

William Charles Walter

Miller

Hamilton Diment

World War II 1939-1945

Christopher Downton

Walter Charles Downton

Thomas Herbert Harvey

John William Harvey

John Robert James Norman Jay

Montague Moore

Ernest Robert Old

Alan Jeffrey Thomas

Richard Wilfred Yearsley

Falkland Islands Conflict 1982

Ronald J Rotherham

GODMANSTONE AND NETHER CERNEWAR MEMORIAL

World War I 1914-1918

William John Hill Dunman

Ernest Ralph Rolls

John Osmond

Edward Silas Morris

World War II 1939-1945

Thomas Leo Pile

Charles Trevett

MINTERNE MAGNAWAR MEMORIAL

World War I 1914-1918

Francis (Frank) George Napier

James Timothy Napier

Abdon Napier

George Hawkins

Frank Bratchell

Cecil Cheeseman

Ernest Adams

Joseph Clark

George Pilgrim

World War II 1939-1945

Joseph Charles Clark

The Society has researched the lives and deaths of each of these men and what has been discovered about them. To download the full text of this research in pdf format, click to go to the Downloads page.DownloadsWar Memorials Map